Hi Andrej - it seems to me that if you're receiving XML that has had the
namespaces stripped, then it's effectively corrupted and no longer
valid. I don't see how you could be expected to rectify that problem -
surely the solution must reside with the Signing->Verifying step?
m.
PS: Love your motorbikes. Keep 'em coming.
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 20:01, Andrej Konkow wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm new to this kind of discussion but would like to respond to a
> message and point out another problem.
>
> the solution you have described is not practicable from my point of
> view.
> I have the following problem: We have evaluated the XML-Security
> package in combination with Apache Axis.
> Everything is fine. Signing->Verifying, Encryption->Decryption.
> But: When I make the following Signing->Encryption and on the other
> side Decryption->Verification then
> the verification will fail, as the namespaces are no more included.
> There's no possibility for me to include the namespaces
> in the way you described as we just handle the incoming messages.
> Currently I have no solution. Do you?
>
> regards,
>
> Andrej
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> From: Mikolaj Habryn <dichro-xml-security <at> rcpt.to>
> Subject: Re: vanishing attribute namespace prefixes (resend)
> Newsgroups: gmane.text.xml.security.devel
> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:37:00 +1000
>
> On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 18:42, Raul Benito wrote:
> >
> rootElement.setAttributeNS("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance","NS1:schemaLocation","urn:frog
> > http://xml.rcpt.to/mikolaj/default";);
> >
> rootElement.setAttributeNS(XMLNS_URI,"xmlns:NS1","http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";);
> > I think your problems will be vanished.
>
> You are, of course, absolutely right.
>
> For the benefit of any future searching of the list archives, the
> sequence to get this right appears to be:
>
> a = doc.createElement(localNamespace, prefix + ":" + tag);
> a.setAttributeNS(xmlnsNamespace, "xmlns:" + prefix, localNamespace);
> a.setAttributeNS(xmlnsNamespace, "xmlns:xsi", xmlschemaNamespace);
> a.setAttributeNS(xmlschemaNamespace, "xsi:schemaLocation",
> "localNamespace path-to-schema");
>
> I hope to one day understand why it takes four lines to achieve a
> construct that seems so fundamental.
>
> m.
>
> PS: ...and I see that my original post has now made it through. My
> thanks to the moderators.
>
>
